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As IT stocks grapple with these challenges, investors

Q: Answer-As IT stocks grapple with these challenges, investors remained cautious, awaiting further clarity on...

The sentence has a tense inconsistency. The phrase investors remained cautious is in the past tense, while the preceding clause As IT stocks grapple with these is in the present tense. To ensure consistency, remained cautious should be changed to remain cautious to match the present tense.

remained cautious, awaiting further clarity on global economic trends. Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical or idiomatic error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. If there is ‘No error’, the answer is (5). (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any).

A As IT stocks grapple with these

B challenges, investors remained cautious,

C awaiting further clarity

D on global economic trends.

E No error

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